Buying art

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Hi guys, wasn't quite sure where to ask this, sorry if in the wrong place.

I'm looking to get started in buying a few paintings - nothing too rich, a few hundred euros each perhaps. I've had a gander at some of the galleries in town, but frankly I'm not willing to pay (yet!) the prices asked.

Can anyone give me some pointers as to where I should be looking?

ErinGoBrath

If you interested I'm currently designing and creating modern images on canvas, then wrapped around a wooden frame.

I'm currently charging 90 euro a piece with is extremely affordable for the quality of the work.

See photo attached (excuse the cheesy pose)

I also commission work with whatever themes and colours the client wants.

Alternatively you could go down Merrion Square on a Sat/Sun but there work ain't cheap!

DadaKopf

The trick is to buy stuff you like!

My Dad bought a few paintings from a gallery on that road with Pearse DART station. It's a good place to look and shouldn't be so rediculously priced as those places on Dawson St.

A nice alternative to paintings are photographs. Good original photos are hard to come by, but there's a pretty decent, small gallery on that road behind (& parallal to) Grafton Street with Café Mocha on it. Sorry I can't remember the name.

Buying a good painting you love and want to part money with is like looking for a house. You look and you look until you find something that amazes you and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy.

Of course, it's all a matter of taste, not an exercise in social climbing.

MadsL

Don't waste your time in Dublin, Amsterdam is where it is at...huge numbers of galleries all competing for your euros...

Try http://www.galeries.nl/index2.html

I'd recommend http://www.galeries.nl/galerie.asp?galnr=830 Galerie Krijger + Katwijk - just because that is my taste amd my wife owns several pieces by their stable.

I would also recommend Galerie/Parc de Sculptures Le Besset in France
http://www.galeries.nl/galerie.asp?galnr=1485
Friends of ours, with huge experience and terrific taste - and reasonable prices.

chewy

shirley as we talking about a while back the paintings of merrion square might be have more varied and out there offerings... and possibly cheaper then those in galleries?

/who remembers seeing gaint paintings of bertie and bruton naked there once...

Merrion

There are also a number of restaurants and craft shops in which up-and-coming artists have works hung for sale. Check out "Bianconni's" opposite St. Vincent's hospital (Merrion Road).

Zulu

merrion square
on a sunday - take a stroll around - theres some great art there.
(This will sound blasphemous to "artists" out there...) I find a great thing to do is to walk around it very quickly - like your in a mad rush, and see what paintings make you stop!